ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

New Zealand Tablet, 21 March 1912, Page 35

ARCHDIOCESE OF WELLINGTON

(From our own correspondent.! :'■' ■'..'■'■' ," v . March, 16. His Grace the Archbishop administered the Sacrament of Confirmation to 25 girls and 10 men at Porirua on last Sunday. He also delivered a very instructive address. . A mission for the women of Thorndon parish: was opened in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart on . Sunday at tho last Mass, when there was a crowded : congregation. The mission is being conducted by the three Marist .missioners (Rev. Fathers O'Connell, Kimbell, and McCarthy), who recently returned from Tasmania. A mission foremen will open on the 20th inst., to be followed by one at Northland. ■ ; -, Sunday's opening sermon was preached by the Rev. Father O'Connell. The decision to hold separate missions for the women has been fully justified, the Basilica each evening being crowded with women. ■ _' ■ -■ - ■'': • I regret to record, the death of Mr. Brendan Quirk, chief clerk of the Experimental Farm's Division of the

Agricultural Deparment, which occurred last night at his residence, Karori. He had been ailing for over a year; - He leaves a wife (a daughter of the late Mr. John Maginnity) and three children. —E.I.P.